Year 9 Early Modern Europe

Who invented the printing press 1440s?

• William Caxton

• Johannes Gutenberg

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Leonardo da Vinci

In what year did the Gunpowder Plot in England fail?

• 1605

• 1608

• 1588

• 1558

Name the mathematician who developed the Theory of Gravity.

• Hans Sloane

• Robert Boyle

• Issac Newton

• Leonardo da Vinic

Name the Catholic monk who protested against his own church by pinning the 95 Theses to a church door in Wittenberg in 1517

• Christopher Columbus

• Martin Luther

• Oliver Cromwell

• Hans Sloan

In what year did the Battle of the Boyne take place?

• 1960

• 1660

• 1690

• 1649

Name the physicist, born in Munster in 1627, who is regarded as the father of modern chemistry?

• Robert Boyle

• Hans Sloane

• William Caxton

• Bartholomew Diaz

In what year did Peter the Great become King of Russia?

• 1660

• 1684

• 1688

• 1682

Name the Portugese explorer who was the first to circumnavigate the globe by 1522.

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Vasca da Gama

• Leonardo da Vinci

• Christopher Columbus

Name the polish scholar who wrote a book in 1543 that suggested the sun, not the earth. was the centre of the universe.

• Galileo

• Copernicus

• Issac Newton

• Francis Bacon

What nationality was the astronomer and physicist Galileo?

• Spanish

• English

• French

• Italian